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UNSW Sydney's $3m deal with Providence Asset Group will accelerate research into reliable energy networks and fund a new centre supporting global development of renewables markets. 

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Carnegie Clean Energy illustrates the benefits of using single axis tracking in large-scale solar projects.

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Elon Musk predicts Tesla's upcoming all-electric SUV, the Model Y, could be twice as popular as its current best-selling electric sedan.

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Tritium co-founder says the mobile battery storage in electric vehicles will have a major impact on the way consumers use electricity, and the grid.

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Indonesia's Terregra Renewables has announced plans to build a second 5MW solar farm in South Australia.

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Government mandated energy efficiency standards could deliver more than $1000 a year in electricity bill savings for average Australian households, a new report has found.

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There has never been a sustained boom of this magnitude occurring concurrently in every major state.

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Gas and hydro plants were the big beneficiaries as the unreliability of brown coal generation hit home in the January heatwave.

The post Know your NEM: Gas and hydro creamed the market as brown coal failed appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Western Australia government launches plan to unlock lithium-ion battery value chain, including vast reserves of lithium and other high value metals.

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Vena gets generation licence for the second big solar farm in South Australia, with commissioning to begin in a few weeks.

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The Zayed Sustainability Prize, the prestigious global award based in the United Arab Emirates, is now accepting entries of projects and solutions that promote sustainable development.

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Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore today announced that the City of Sydney has been selected to host a major international climate conference in 2020.

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In spite of the commentary you have heard about renewables failing during the power crisis, the opposite was true.

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Is Australia on the rollercoaster ride particularly for large-scale renewables or are we now on-board the good-ship renewables?

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Partner Lewis McDonald has been appointed to lead Herbert Smith Freehills' global energy team.

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RMIT designs new nano-enhanced material that can convert light to power chemical reactions, a discovery which could help deliver a more sustainable chemical manufacturing industry.

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Sanjeev Gupta's plans to combine solar, batteries and pumped hydro emerge as the biggest challenge to the coal industry's hopes in the government tender for 24/7 power.

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If the government has any data or modelling to serve as a basis for Morrison’s confidence about meeting the Paris climate targets, it should tell us.

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Origin says ongoing deployment of rooftop solar takes big bite out of electricity sales to households in latest quarter.

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China connects power plant that combines, wind, solar, concentrated solar PV and energy storage.

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